Radio Bochum

Radio Bochum
Radio transmitter ( private law )
Program type	Local radio
reception	analogue terrestrial , cable and web radio
Reception area	Bochum
Start of transmission	4th August 1990
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Radio Bochum is the local radio for the city of Bochum . It went on air on August 4, 1990 as Ruhrwelle Bochum and received its license from the State Agency for Media in North Rhine-Westphalia . The editor-in-chief is Andrea Donat.

program

Radio Bochum broadcasts nine hours of local programs every week. This includes the morning show The Radio Bochum Morgenmacher sent 5-10 pm and the afternoon program Radio Bochum in the afternoon , which will be broadcast from 14 to 18 AM. From 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., DJ Enrico Ostendorf will present Radio Bochum in the Mix , a one-hour, unmoderated DJ set. In addition, Radio Bochum broadcasts citizens' radio on its frequencies in accordance with the statutory provisions . This is broadcast Monday to Saturday from 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and Sundays from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The remainder program and the messages on the hour to the coat broadcaster Radio NRW taken. In return, Radio Bochum broadcasts an hourly advertising block on Radio NRW. Between 5:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., the local radio broadcasts three to five-minute local news every half hour. You can also hear local weather and traffic information every half hour and every full hour on Radio Bochum during the local program.

Moderation and editing

Radio Bochum morning makers Felix Groß, Anuschka Fritzsche and Nicole Dreisbach present the morning program alternately every morning from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. Other presenters at Radio Bochum include a. Michael Ragsch, Robert Walkenhorst, Ansgar Borgmann, Friederike Ullrich, Bernd Lehwald, Katja Leistenschneider, Ines Grunow and VfL stadium commentator Günther Pohl.

Range

In the range analysis EMA NRW 2019 II in the transmission area, the Bochum city broadcaster achieved a value of 30% for listeners yesterday . The station therefore has around 96,000 listeners every day, Monday to Friday.

Radio Bochum remains the market leader in the broadcasting area and has a market share of 30%.

Companies

The publishers holding Radio Bochum (98.51 percent Funke Mediengruppe and 1.49 percent Ruhr Nachrichten ) hold 75 percent, Peter Fiele with 17.99 percent and Stadtwerke Bochum with 7.01 percent. Marketing tasks in the area of ​​radio advertising were outsourced to Westfunk .

Renaming

The station started under the name Ruhrwelle Bochum, which was later shortened to Ruhrwelle. The renaming was mainly due to a lack of acceptance among the listeners in the Bochum district of Wattenscheid . In the late 1990s, the content was restructured and the station was renamed Radio 98.5. The main aim of the new name was to make the transmission frequency popular. In 2006 it was renamed again to 98.5 Radio Bochum. Since a relaunch in January 2010, the station has only been called Radio Bochum.

reception

Radio Bochum covers the city area of Bochum with its frequency , so it can also be received in the formerly independent city of Wattenscheid. The transmitter emits strong enough to be received in surrounding cities such as Essen , Gelsenkirchen , Herne , Recklinghausen , Herten , Witten , Hattingen or Dortmund . The terrestrial frequency of the local radio is 98.5 MHz, the station in Bochum can be heard on 99.4 MHz via cable. The transmitter is located on the telecommunications tower on Karl-Lange-Straße, not far from the Ruhr Stadium, and transmits with 500 watts to an almost omnidirectional antenna on the upper mast shaft.

There is also the possibility of receiving Radio Bochum on the Internet via live stream .

Radio Bochum can also be reached via Whatsapp with a text or voice message on [phone] .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Numbers according to Westfunk: Radio Bochum, accessed on July 15, 2019.
2. ↑ Radio Bochum on kek-online.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 56 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 47"  E